Kyle Lawless

Kyle Lawless, doing business as K & B Water Truck Service, provides water handling equipment and services for wildland fire suppression and emergency response operations as a self-certified small disadvantaged business sole proprietor operating exclusively as a prime contractor from Bakersfield, California. The vendor competes predominantly under small business set-asides on Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements and Indefinite Delivery Contracts issued through the Virtual Incident Procurement system, though individual delivery orders often carry no set-aside designation once task orders are issued.

K & B Water Truck Service specializes in Type 2 water tender trucks, potable water transportation, trained personnel, equipment logistics, and base-camp support enabling rapid resource deployment for fire suppression across the western United States. Representative work includes two delivery orders awarded August 11, 2026, by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region), valued at $79,191.60 and $79,373.13 respectively under small business set-asides; a $53,505 delivery order from July 2024 for water truck services supporting fire management; and a $45,628 delivery order from August 2025 for water tender truck logistics in Solvang, California. The vendor holds three active Indefinite Delivery Contracts: a $500,000 multiple-award I-BPA with the National Interagency Fire Center for Region 5 water handling (awarded February 6, 2026, through June 4, 2030), a $250,000 multiple-award I-BPA with the National Interagency Fire Center for Region 5 (awarded June 4, 2025, through June 4, 2030, with six delivery orders valued at approximately $192,000 as of September 2025), and a $250,000 multiple-award I-BPA with the Forest Service covering Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10 (awarded June 7, 2022, through June 6, 2025).

Customer concentration is extreme: 96% of 69 awards across recent years serve Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center variants, split across regional and functional subdivisions of the Department of Agriculture. The top two customer lines by potential value—National Interagency Fire Center ($1.2 million combined) and Forest Service Region 5 ($803 thousand combined)—account for 97% of combined potential value across all awards. The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management California Region represents a minor third customer with three awards totaling $21 thousand.

Activity has varied: five awards in 2022, three in 2023, two in 2024, seven in 2025, and three in 2026. Combined potential value across all 69 prime awards stands at $3.2 million, with $1.7 million obligated (52% of potential). The five named parent vehicles (all Blanket Purchase Agreements and Indefinite Delivery Contracts) collectively drive 53 task orders valued at approximately $1.4 million, anchored by a 20-order BPA (AG9J61B167294) worth $499 thousand and an 11-order BPA (AG9J61B137245) worth $299 thousand. Seventy-eight percent of the vendor's award footprint falls under NAICS 561730 (Support Activities for Forestry), with the remainder scattered across food-service catering work for federal locations.